Max Tegmark

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Lex Fridman Podcast · #371 – Max Tegmark: The Case for Halting AI Development · 13 Apr 2023 podcast

But I don't think the chance is certainly not zero either.

And it will certainly be possible to do for a lot of really cool AI applications that we're not using now.

So we can have a lot of the fun that we're excited about if we do this.

We're going to need a little bit of time.

That's why it's good to pause and put in place requirements.

One more thing also, I think, you know, someone might think, well, 0% chance we're going to survive.

Let's just give up, right?

That's very dangerous because there's no more guaranteed way to fail than to convince yourself that it's impossible and not to try.

You know, when you study history and military history, the first thing you learn is that that's...

It's how you do psychological warfare.

You persuade the other side that it's hopeless, so they don't even fight.

And then of course you win, right?

Let's not do this psychological warfare on ourselves and say there's 100% probability we're all screwed anyway.

Sadly, I do get that a little bit, sometimes from some young people who are so convinced that we're all screwed that they're like, I'm just going to play computer games and do drugs because we're screwed anyway, right?

It's important to keep the hope alive because it actually has a causal impact and makes it more likely that we're going to succeed.

So let's not make that mistake.

And this is a big mistake society is making.

I think all in all, everybody's so gloomy and the media are also very biased towards if it bleeds, it leads and gloom and doom, right?

So most visions of the future we have are dystopian, which really demotivates people.

We want to really, really, really focus on the upside also to give people the willingness to fight for it.

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